Lmfao - have you read any of my previous posts? I didn't get 2,500 likes for nothing dude.

I have almost every skill even remotely related to my specialization at level 5, I've actually started to bridge into other specializations because I have no reason to invest further SP into anything else or I simply can't. I'm sorry, but some skills just aren't worth the SP.

Put it to you this way... I have to drop 1,500,000 SP into Assault Rifle Fitting Optimization 5 to get a whole 3 extra PG from a prototype rifle. You know what sucks about that the most? The fact that level 2 and 4 give absolutely no benefit due to the rounding system. The only levels in that skill that are worth a damn are 1, 3 and 5.

Level 1: 9.22
Level 2: 8.77

Both round off to 9, so you will see no benefit from level 2 at all.

So, having to spend twice the effort to grind up an extra 190,000 (285,000 with booster) SP for absolutely no benefit from the skill as I will be leveling it up to Lvl 4, is insane.

There's a significant difference between grinding SP for some cool new stuff and being toward the "end game" in which you're throwing SP at skills that barely make a difference if any at all.

And this isn't even mentioning the fact that it's the same.... exact.... routine.... over... and over....

I'm physically ill and the sad part is I want to remain competitive because that's just how I am as a gamer. This is -my- game, this is my preferred game in which I want to be king (in my own world) and I've done a damn good job of keeping that edge. I am simply stating that it's bollocks having to do two-to-three times the work for twice the benefit all because Mary Poppins and the Kaleidoscope ******* decided to AFK through the entirety of the last event.

The entire premise of this event's mechanics was to discourage AFK camping and instead it just made **** THAT MUCH MORE DIFFICULT for the players who actually play. I mean, christ - you want to know the best solution? Remove the damn MCCs entirely. Done. Over with.

Do you guys think this way in real life? I mean, you "COULD" have like 500,000 in like 2 years if you worked 60-70 hours a week and just saved up really well. Unless you are already a rich mofo then get lost.

because the thought is that grinding is what is going to hook those players in, and keep this game alive. Like FPS games that don't grind are now dead. Like BF3, TF2, Counter strike, tribes, KZ3 ext. .....Oh wait. Players are still playing them. Right up into their next incarnation on the new console.

Challenging =/= Grinding. Grinding is the compulsory action for scheduled rewards through operant conditioning. You play because you KNOW you will get rewards. This doesn't make a game fun, it's just like work. You go to work because you know you will get paid.

See below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtAn3dic-g#at=394



You're missing the point like a huge majority of the people responding in this thread.

It's not about playing the game - it's a heavy handed way to get players to play a game that is repetitive, redundant and un-entertaining after the first hundred thousand matches. It's the same routine over and over again for the same rewards. ISK and SP. There's no difference in it to jumble it up and make it interesting.

There's no way to keep the player engaged once they reach a satiation point in which they're stating to themselves: "Why the hell did I waste eighty hours of my life?" You hit the skill cap, you invest in skills that have absolutely no real meaning. The game hallmarks on you "being able to make the shot that changes history" but there's no history to be changed. Yanno, unless you look at Planetary Conquest in which you have to have the right kind of gear and the right kind of skill - so it's not for everyone, and even then you have to get past the power blocs to even get a foot in the door.

I don't think I have to remind you that this is why Eve Online is such a ***** for independent projects to get started up in Null-Sec.